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Restore MKV Format Support

Removing MKV Format support has a negative impact on the workflow of people that work with broadcasting software like OBS. Restore MKV support. Having native support for MKVs, even if they don't edit well without generating proxies, saves me a ton of time that I'd otherwise have to spend remuxing/transcoding files.

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  • Dino Silvestri commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is why I may have to cancel and switch to avid again. it seems like the industry forces this every 5 years.

  • Jon Sheldon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Have just been reading about the benefits of FFV1/PCM codecs and .MKV containers for archiving, and how it has become a favourite for video archiving associations around the world. Then discovered that Adobe just removed support for it! For what reason? Will support be reinstated? If not within Premier Pro will support be added to Encoder?

  • John Myers commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adobe you are actively alienating SO MANY of your users by continuously removing critical codecs from our workflow. I am so sick of this user hostility from Adobe! I can only hope your hubris will be your undoing.

  • Cameron Garnham commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Easy solution for those who wish to use MKV files with Premiere Pro:

    (brew install ffmpeg)
    $ ffmpeg -i video.mkv -map 0 -c:v copy -c:a pcm_s16le video.mkv.mov

    You can play around with editing the "-codec:a pcm_s16le" and replacing it with "-codec:a copy", skipping the decoding of the audio stream.

  • Will commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I honestly don't understand why an 'update' would be removing a feature that worked fine and many people used... An update should be improving things, not limiting.

  • Royce Whitaker commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is honestly crazy. I had many CURRENT projects that use mkv files and now i have to go and convert them because some num-nuts at adobe decided to take it out..!

    ANY amount of warning would be nice.

  • Sean Ragan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I sure hope Adobe had compelling technical reasons for removing MKV support, and that your lawyers didn't have any say in the matter.

  • Razz commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have some projects using ".mkv" and now it's a headache having to search for a workaround :(
    Please get the ".mkv" officially supported, it is critical to some of us that can't take the time to remuxing files!
    Please!

  • pedro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    MAGIX VEGAS Pro 17 soporta MKV AMIGOS

    MAGIX VEGAS Pro 17 supports MKV FRIENDS

  • Olivier commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why on earth did you removes Mkv ??
    I read by chance... no update for me...

  • corporatep commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This ruined so many project files I had been working on for over a year. Super depressing.

  • Will commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It's actually ridiculous that this was removed... For Screen Captures on Windows, OBS is VERY popular and in order to capture 4 channels of audio and ALSO prevent losing your screen captures from OBS crashes, MKV is the only option. Everything worked fine before. Now I have to remux screen captueres as an extra step because Premiere pro (A professional video editing program) cannot import a pretty popular video file AND I can't even use ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER to convert the mkv file EVEN THOUGH media encoder is literally meant to encode media to different formats................ Literally makes no sense they would remove support of this.

    Honestly, who makes these decisions within the Premiere Pro team? Whoever is in charge needs to realize that customers drive their business and they should be listening to the feedback they receive. MKV was fine before, why just remove it and inconvenience many of your paying customers?

  • andromeda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    MKV wasn't harming anyone.

    It was so useful for using clips from random sources in videos. Ridiculous to drop support for one of the most popular formats around.

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